humour
英 ['hjuːmə]
美
- n. 幽默（等於humor）；詼諧
- vt. 遷就；使滿足
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音譯“幽默”，指能夠讓人發笑的言語技巧。
中文“幽”為“隱蔽”，“默”通“嘿”（讀默），意為“不出聲”，可以引申為“話少”，也就是要以隱蔽、簡潔的方式讓人發笑，顯然是把 humour 一詞的檔次和難度給提高了一大截，不但要讓人發笑，還要隱晦、簡短。
英文詞源
- humour
- humour: [14] Latin hūmēre meant ‘be moist’ (from it was derived hūmidus, source of English humid [16]). And related to it was the noun hūmor, which signified originally simply ‘liquid’. In due course it came to be applied specifically to any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile) whose combinations according to medieval theories of physiology determined a person’s general health and temperament.
This was the sense in which English acquired the word, via Anglo-Norman humour, and it gradually developed in meaning via ‘mental disposition at a particular time, mood’ and ‘inclination, whim’ to, in the late 17th century, the main modern sense ‘funniness’.
=> humid - humour
- chiefly British English spelling of humor; see -or. Related: Humourous; humourist.
雙語例句
- 1. There is a wry sense of humour in his work.
- 他的作品帶有一種諷刺意味的幽默。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Sharon tells the story of that night with self-deprecating humour.
- 沙倫以幽默自嘲的口吻講述那一夜的故事。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Hugo bore his illness with great courage and good humour.
- 雨果以巨大的勇氣和良好的精神狀態麵對疾病。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. This comedy of contemporary manners is told with compassion and acid humour.
- 這部當代風尚喜劇雜糅了悲憫的情懷和尖酸的幽默。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. This book is suffused with Shaw's characteristic wry Irish humour.
- 這本書充滿了蕭伯納獨特的愛爾蘭式幽默與嘲諷。
來自柯林斯例句